-- student is making a desperate plea tonight to the thief who stole his laptop -- -- here chemistry student mideast not just offering a 1000 dollar reward to -- For the laptop what he really wants is the return of just one file on his computer. The file contains. Get this five years' worth of research and his thesis which he needs to graduate. Course all of this big news on campus. Opening of four years of your time and effort for something like that it's worth well over -- thousand dollars and it's just -- -- I mean I hope he gets back for free because. You have to -- There has to be some sort of human decency even if your -- -- my hope we get to back that thesis. The student has posted fliers with his lap -- password he's giving -- the passport all over campus hoping that the thief will respondent.

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